Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Market-Based Bank Stress Test May Relieve Anxiety / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Axel_Merk
The stress test may be causing more harm than good. Why? Regulators should always have a good assessment of the health of financial institutions. If there are deficiencies in the process applied to regulate banks, then the process for the system as a whole should be reviewed.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Signs of a Continued Stock Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Mike_Stathis
It's been a while since I made any posts about the market because there hasn't been much to discuss. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that the 8200 level was fairly significant and represented a pivotal point in the market. Since then, the market has rallied to this level and has stuck around.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Stock Markets Calm Ahead of Bank Stress Test Results / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Markets paused for reflection and traded in a narrow range yesterday finishing neutral after their recent bout of bullish fireworks. The S&P 500 managed to just hold onto the 900 handle. Oil stocks struggled on a fall in crude prices while Disney shone on better than expected numbers. This was despite more upside data surprises this time from the services ISM and a cautiously upbeat testimony from Fed Chairman Bernanke. However news that Bank of America may require $35 billion in additional capital has futures in the red this morning.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Credit Crisis Investment Risks in China Outweighed by Growth Prospects / Stock-Markets / China Economy
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: MAOPING, People’s Republic of China - I’m often asked if there are investment risks in China.
My answer: Absolutely… there are investment risks everywhere.
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Rally or New Bull Market? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Guy_Lerner
Since the equity markets bottomed on March 9, I have always been very careful to point out that the current rally is a bear market rally. In other words, when all is said and done, I believe that the current intermediate uptrend will be viewed as counter trend rally within an ongoing bear market. It has been my expectation that the current intermediate up trend has a high likelihood of rolling over in the next couple of weeks.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Stock Markets Have Never Made a Final Bear Market Bottom in March / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Donald_W_Dony
This article is an update on the April 22 Market Minute. As the March rally continues to advance into its ninth week, many financial reports are now indicating that the bear market is over and the low in March was the final bottom. Though the possibility is present, the probability remains remote. Since 1946, there has never been a final bottom in March. In the 12 bear markets over the past 70 years, six of the troughs developed in October and three occurred in May and June but none ended in March. However, in all of the bear markets, deep drops in March were present.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Wall Street Oligarchs Engineer Stock Market Recovery / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Gary_Dorsch
An eight-week-long upturn in European, Japanese, US and emerging stock markets since March 10th has sparked a wave of optimistic commentaries in the financial media, that the worst bear-market since the 1930’s has finally come to a merciful end, and the rocky road to recovery lies ahead. Since hitting a 12-year low on March 6th, the key global benchmark – the S&P-500 Index has rebounded by +34%%, while the KBW Index measuring 24-US-banks doubled off its lows.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Late Rally Sharply Reduces Stock Market Losses / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets had a slightly lower session today in what looked like a consolidation day, as support was tested severely on two occasions and held, resulting in a late sharp rally back on the indices over the last hour, sharply reducing the losses.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
What New Stocks Bull Market? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Marty_Chenard
Some people are saying ...
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"This is the beginning of a new Super Bull Market."
"The banks are fixed, and the housing market drop is over."
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
No Meanginful Damage (Yet) to Nasdaq Q's / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
A very quiet session so far, but a defensive one to be sure. The weakness has pressed the PowerShares QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQQ) from 35.14 to 34.65, which in and of itself has NOT inflicted any meaningful damage to the dominant near-term uptrend off of the most recent pivot low at 32.01 (4/21). At this juncture, only additional weakness that sends the Q’s beneath 34.50/40 will begin to compromise the most recent portion of the uptrend and could press prices to 34.00-33.80 in a hurry. Conversely, as long as 34.65/45 contains forthcoming weakness, the bulls will remain in control, and the next upside target is 35.30/50.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Three Ways for Investors to Profit fromTaiwan, the Other China / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: As you scour the globe for potential post-financial-crisis profit plays, don’t overlook Taiwan. Stock markets around the world have already started to rebound with joy as investors begin to believe that that the unpleasant global recession is finally nearing its bottom. Unfortunately, there’s one sobering conclusion many investors have so far failed to reach: With grossly over-stimulative monetary and fiscal policies at play, most countries will find it very difficult to recover.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Stocks Two-Month Rally Rolls On / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices started off the week with a bang. There was a big gap up at the beginning, a very strong follow on rally, a mid-day consolidation, and a strong afternoon thrust especially on the S&P 500. Despite the fact that the Nasdaq 100 trailed, by the end of the day it caught on and they closed at the highs for the day going on both indices as well as the Dow.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Health Sector Investing: Exclusive Interview With Alzheimer's Expert / Stock-Markets / Healthcare Sector
By: Q1_Publishing
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Stock Market Rally Fatigue, the Sell in May and Go Away Mantra? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Paul_J_Nolte
The mantra, for lack of a better term, is to sell in May and go away. While over the history of actually tracking this simple investing system it has done rather well, it has suffered some recently. Given the huge run in stocks over the past few months, will cash be a better investment than stocks over the next six months? The lass bad economic and earnings data was enough to push stocks up for the seventh of the past eight weeks and gave investors reasons to hope that the economic downturn may actually end later this year.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
The Insider Selling Question to Stock Market Trend / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
By: Richard_Shaw
The ratio of share sales to share purchases by US insiders shot way into bear territory at the height of the stock market rally in the US stock market during April.
The net sales spike was much higher than at any time in the past year.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Stacking Up Obama's First 100 Days Stock Market Returns Compared to Past Presidents / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Frank_Holmes
With President Obama’s first 100 days coming to an end last week, it’s a good time to measure how the market has responded to his initiatives.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Stock Market Rally Facing True Test of Trend / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Captain_Hook
That’s what the stock market faces this coming week with technicals now sufficiently overbought to allow for a true test of the trend. Those who do not study history or cycles are interested to find out the nature of the beast. They are asking themselves, ‘is this a new bull market?’ Based on the way open interest put / call ratios of the major US indices are climbing higher, where I will be showing you updated post-expiry pictures later this week to confirm this thinking, even if the put buying were primarily attributable to hedging, as it stands right now the sentiment related verdict is one of skepticism buy and large, which of course provides the ‘wall of worry’ for stocks to climb, as described in detail last week
Monday, May 04, 2009
Stock Market Moves Remain on Hold Until Thursday's Bank Stress Test Results / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: Barring some dramatic – and unforeseen – news this week, expect investors to tread water until Thursday, when the government is expected to release the results of the bank stress tests it conducted on the 19 largest U.S. banks.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Bank Stress Test Results To Lead Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
With Japan closed until Thursday and many other stock exchanges closed today for a May bank holiday, we’re likely to get off to a slow start this week. But beware indices, FX, commodites and the U.S. equites are open as normal, but with the likely lower volumes, sharper movements in prices are a possibility.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Stock Market Close over S&P 875 Warrants Extreme Caution Going Forward / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
So why the caution? Simple. The best of the rally is over with for starters. Two, you can't count a close at 877 a true breakout. When you break out you want to see the market put some distance away from the breakout level and two points on an eight hundred index does not qualify as distance. It's still very tenuous. If we can stay above 875 for another day it opens the door for a move to the January gap down at 918. This would be an area for which the market would be very tired, overbought and at extremely tough resistance.